EDITORIAL
Trump’s Attacks Can Be Turned Back

Sep 29, 2025

The second Trump administration has been eight months of chaos. Eight months of “shock and awe.” Eight months of threats. Every day it is something new. Some of it Trump uses to distract the population. But Trump’s attacks on the population are very real.

Trump sends masked ICE agents to round up and deport immigrants, most of whom are ordinary people who work hard for low wages. Trump went after federal government workers, firing many of them and tearing up the union contracts for those who are left.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was nothing but taking from working people in order to further enrich the wealthy. Medicaid and food stamps are being cut, healthcare premiums will soon rise drastically, social services and education programs are being eliminated so that billionaires can get a bigger tax cut and military contractors can make more money. Trump eliminates regulations on pollution, climate change and worker safety, cutting any regulation that stands in the way of corporations increasing their profits.

For working people, life is becoming more dangerous and more unhealthy. And more expensive. Trump got elected by promising to lower food prices. He promised that his tariffs would increase jobs. But instead, tariffs are just increasing inflation. Trump’s promises of lower prices have been tossed aside and been replaced by all of his distractions.

To try and silence any opposition to what he is doing, Trump uses threats and intimidation and violent language. He threatens TV stations, newspapers, universities, talk show hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, and even the panel of women on “The View.”

Trump threatens other politicians and people in the government establishment, people like former FBI Director James Comey, because they didn’t always do his bidding. Trump fired people who had been assigned to investigate his corruption. Trump is using the power of the federal government to exact retribution and revenge on all his perceived enemies.

Trump is acting like a dictator. Certainly, with his giant ego, Trump is a wannabe dictator. But Trump could not be doing what he is doing unless the capitalist class that he works for was not in agreement on his moves toward a more repressive regime. The capitalists so far have put up with Trump’s sometimes unhinged behavior because Trump is doing everything he can to squeeze the working class in order to increase profits of the wealthy class and to prepare the military for war.

So who is going to stand up to Trump? The Democrats? The Democrats may be yelling and screaming right now, but what are they really doing to change things? The Democrats have had plenty of chances to run the government and what have they done for working people?

The courts? The Supreme Court already has given Trump immunity for anything he does and it has been striking down legal challenges to Trump’s policies, even as Trump violates the Constitution and established law. So no, Trump won’t be stopped by the Democrats or the courts.

But the working class can stop Trump. When it is organized and ready to fight, the working class can be a powerful force to change society. Working people make up the big, big majority of the population. Look around you. Workers are together by the thousands in the factories, in the offices, in the fields, on the job sites, on the roads, railroads and airports. Workers are millions in the society. Workers make the economy run. Workers are the economy. That is power when it is used.

Most workers don’t see the power today, they don’t see it because we haven’t used that power in a real way, not for a long time. The politicians who serve the capitalists, who are aware of our power, try to distract workers with other things, like Trump is doing now. And they do everything they can to keep the working class divided, pitting workers against each other, trying to get us to blame each other.

But many times in the past, the working class has found the way to overcome any divisions. The working class has found the way to build up its own organizations and make a fight, pushing aside any politicians or union leaders who would stand in our way.

When the working class is ready to fight, a fight can come on fast and spread like a tidal wave. The working class can make a fight that can push aside a wannabe dictator, it can even get rid of this whole profit-over-life system that Trump represents.